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This guide presents the typical layout of Wikipedia articles, including the sections an article usually has, ordering of sections, and formatting styles for various elements of an article. For advice on the use of wiki markup , see Help:Editing ; for guidance on writing style, see Manual of Style .
This template includes collapsible groups/sections. When it first appears, one of these groups/sections may be set to be visible ("expanded") while the others remain hidden ("collapsed") apart from their titlebars.
These include but are not limited to: articles, essays, papers, chapters, reference work entries, newspaper and magazine sections or departments, episodes of audio-visual series, segments or skits in longer programs, short poems, short stories, story lines and plot arcs; songs, album tracks and other short musical works; leaflets and circulars.
Editors should structure articles with consistent, reader-friendly layouts and formatting (which are detailed in this guide). Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article and should not be changed without good reason. Edit warring over stylistic choices is unacceptable. [b]
Articles start with a lead section (WP:CREATELEAD) summarising the most important points of the topic.The lead section is the first part of the article; it comes above the first header, and may contain a lead image which is representative of the topic, and/or an infobox that provides a few key facts, often statistical, such as dates and measurements.
Styletips – a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting. Manual of Style reading schedule – an essay. Related essays. Article development – lists the ways in which you can help an article grow. Basic copyediting – gives helpful advice on copy-editing. Better articles – guidance on how to make articles better.
Many essays, however, are obscure, single-author pieces. Essays may be moved into userspace as user essays (see below), or even deleted, if they are found to be problematic. [1] Occasionally, even longstanding, community-edited essays may be removed or radically revised if community norms shift. [2
Major sections of long articles may be spun off into their own articles, called a child article, with a fuller treatment of the subtopic, leaving a summary in the parent article. This is accompanied by the use of a {{ Main }} or {{ Further }} template in the parent linking the summarized section to the expanded child article.